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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Fri, 25 Feb 2005
It is all about trust...
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Gianugo's experience with a "flat tyres (sic)" reminds us of the importance of the "trustworthiness" factor in doing business:
He makes the analogy to open source soft
It feels good to imagine that honesty, cluefulness and competence can be key drivers again and a foundation for a business model in the software services industry: I'm sure this can be one of the reasons of success of Open Source and it will pay off in the end
People want to deal with trustworthy organizations. Now, not all companies are untrustworthy and not all open source projects are trustworthy. But it seems to me that if open source projects are run in a transparent manner, then people can make up their own minds about whether the project is trustworthy or not, whereas most companies are not going to let you see the details. Building anything worthwhile, whether a business or a piece of software is partially an exercise in building up trust.
Thanks for the pointer to the article: quite refreshing. Why the "(sic)", though? (I know what it means, I just can't work out which bit you're referring to).
Tim
Posted by Tim Golden at Fri Feb 25 07:57:13 2005
Tim
Posted by Tim Golden at Fri Feb 25 07:57:13 2005
Good for you. In the land where English was "invented", we call them tyres ;)
Seriously, it's unusual to qualify a us / uk spelling variation with (sic), unless you didn't know it was a legitimate variation in the first place, in which case, all is forgiven.
I just moved to the US from the UK a few months ago, and the first time I saw a Tire (sic) Store, I thought it was being run by the kind of folk who run stores that sell "Burger's" (sic) in the UK ;)
Posted by Brian at Sat Feb 26 01:55:06 2005
Seriously, it's unusual to qualify a us / uk spelling variation with (sic), unless you didn't know it was a legitimate variation in the first place, in which case, all is forgiven.
I just moved to the US from the UK a few months ago, and the first time I saw a Tire (sic) Store, I thought it was being run by the kind of folk who run stores that sell "Burger's" (sic) in the UK ;)
Posted by Brian at Sat Feb 26 01:55:06 2005
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